COMMENTARY: ‘Presbyterorum Ordinis’ manifests a keen awareness of the priest’s special identity and vital mission in the Church.

COMMENTARY: Vatican II’s often-misread final document is best understood by returning to its central claim: Jesus Christ reveals man to himself.

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants. (RNS) — With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second ...

The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II attempts a Herculean task. Part reference book, part introduction to a complex historical subject, part analysis of a still ongoing reception of the conciliar ...

Vatican II stripped the Church down to its skivvies. It allowed the Holy Spirit to clothe her in garments more suitable to our new liberal, democratic order.

Roman Catholic Pope Benedict's vision of Catholicism, Vatican II, and the future of the Church endure through his teachings Pope Benedict's writings and teachings have influenced generations of ...

Those popes, along with Pope Saint Paul VI, who succeeded John XXIII in the middle of Vatican II’s tenure, “all made it quite clear that Vatican II must be interpreted in light of, and as an ...

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Unlike his two predecessors, St. John Paul II and retired Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis was not present in Rome for any of the sessions of the council, which met from 1962 to 1965.

After Vatican II, Catholics worshiped in their own languages, rather than in Latin. By urging Catholics to become more biblically literate, the council inspired lay communities of spiritual ...

While today’s scholars tend to focus in their study of Vatican II on “what happened at the council” or on how the implementation of the council’s decrees played out, a less developed but ...

Inside the Vatican 15:41. The pope has spent much of his pontificate seeking to correct what he considers the misinterpretation of Vatican II, insisting that it wasn't a revolutionary break from ...